February 29 is a rare day, a perfect date to celebrate with a session of theFinal Fantasy-themed musical gameTheatrhythm Final Bar Line. However, I’ve got sad news for anyone attempting to celebrate today with a littleTheathrythmas the rhythm game just won’t loadon this day, specifically.
The situation is a bummer, yes, but worry not as a solution already exists, and the cause for the whole thing is rather hilarious.
It seems like what’s preventing players from joining the servers is that we’re currently existing in the most cursed day of a glitched period in time, the one our calendar lords call “leap year”. Look, I admit that don’t know the complex math behind this cosmic event, but I believe Destructoid’s ownZoey Handleyperfectly described it as “a little Y2K that comes ’round every four years”.
This Y2K ordeal becomes twice as hilarious once you remember thatTheatrhythmis a mostly offline game. It doesn’t need the Internet, hell, it doesn’t even need to know what time it is. In fact, the good people atVooksreport having tried it on their consoles, and the fix they found was to just change the console’s date toanyother date of the year. Thank you, Mr Kojima,you’ve taught us well.
Here’s hoping Square Enix solves this problem soon, or theTheatrhythmfans who are too wise to mess with the authorities of time will have to abruptly find new plans for July 14, 2025.
This is such an interesting failure — or maybe, just maybe, Square Enix is bottleneckingTheatrhythmon purpose to prevent it from completely overshadowing the release ofFinal Fantasy VII: Rebirth,the real competition here all along.There’s just no way of knowing.
Theatrhythm Final Bar Lineis usually available on the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, just nottoday.
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirthcomes out today on the PlayStation 5 and will likely stay available until the great global collapse.
